Polistes olivaceous

Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, Zootaxa 2920, pp. 42-64 : 47

Polistes olivaceous (!) ( De Geer 1773) [mostly Polistes (Gyrostoma) jokahamae Radoszkowski 1887 ]

Sonan (1943: 477), listing Polistes hebraeus ( Fabricius 1787) and P. okinawensis Matsumura & Uchida 1926 as junior synonyms of P. o l i v a c e u s, stated that this species was common in lowland areas all over Taiwan Island. He listed, as example localities of its occurrence, Heitou, Kagi, Koshun, Rimogan in Bunsan-gun, Souzan and Taihoku. Starr (1992) regarded Sonan's “ P. olivaceus ” as P. jadwigae Dalla Torre [= P. jokahamae ; see Kojima and Hagiwara (1998)]. We have examined 21 Ƥ and 11 3 in TARI that were identified as P. o l i v a c e u s by Sonan; they are from Ako, Hokoto (or Bokoto or Hookoto), Horisha, Kagi, Koshun, Nanto, Rimogan and Taihoku. All of them except one P. rothneyi Ƥ from Kagi were revealed to belong to P. j o k a h a m a e.